Travel laptop

Falariun · 1 Nov 2017

Hi all,
First post so apologies if in wrong area.
My wife is into her wildlife and scenery photography. We are going to yellowstone next year and that will result in lots of photos. At present she has a 17.5 inch dell laptop that is heavier than me so traveling with it is not an option. I was looking at getting her a chrome book ( Acer R13 for example) as it is light weight and she can view her photos on it.
The other thing she can do is connect a really small lightweight ehdd to transfer photos from the sd card to the ehdd.
Is this a viable way to do things. I know that the chrome book is an online tool but this will not be to transfer photos to the cloud.
Option 2 is something like an Asus vivobook L404. An inch bigger but still fairly lightweight but with normal windows issues.
Any thoughts?
Graeme

JohnX · 1 Nov 2017

Why not a tablet?

Falariun · 1 Nov 2017

Transfer through to ehdd for the most part? I do have a Samsung tab s 10
Graeme

Snapsh0t · 1 Nov 2017

The Dell XPS13 (9360) is worth a look and there are often good deals in the Dell outlet. Save your money and eyesight by avoiding the QHD screen and sticking to FHD.

JohnX · 1 Nov 2017

They're not the only kid on the block, but take a look at the Kingston MobileLite devices. Here's a user review to give you an idea of what they can do. https://jonworth.eu/gadget-review-kingston-mobilelite-mlw221/

DemiLion · 1 Nov 2017

I'd go for a 13" Dell XPS any day of the week.

st599 · 3 Nov 2017

JohnX said:
They're not the only kid on the block, but take a look at the Kingston MobileLite devices. Here's a user review to give you an idea of what they can do. https://jonworth.eu/gadget-review-kingston-mobilelite-mlw221/

Have they fixed the firmware on these or do you still have to copy via the mobile device?

Glacially slow the last time I tried one.

Get far better throughput with a RaspberryPi clone and a script.

Snapsh0t · 4 Nov 2017

I think Kingston have 'fixed' the firmware by releasing a new model. None of these devices seem to get particularly good user reviews.

Jim_Tod · 5 Nov 2017

Why not look at a couple of WD MyPassport Pro as a backup- built in SD card reader, 10 mins for 64Gb transfer keeping cards dated and doing incremental backups.

It acts as a local w-fi network and you can look at images using a tablet. You can even use LR mobile on an ipad to edit but I found transferring RAW files over took a while.

I got one of these for a safari where travel weight restricted and was shooting everything on a D500/D810 combo with spare cards as backup. Kept the XQD and CF cards as originals, backed up to the WD each night from the SD card as a backup and then recycled the SD card.

GTG · 5 Nov 2017

Ex business ultrabook such as the dell latitude I am using now. They are well built and can survive better than non business class models in my opinion.